Of course any publication charging another with having committed a crime is libel though the crime charged be but a mere misdemeanor. Thus a publication charging one with having been ejected from a house of ill fame is libel.146

142 State vs. Smiley, 37 Ohio St., 30;

Crerve vs. People, 92 Ill., 231;

State vs. Spear, 13 R. I., 324;

State vs. Schmitt, 49 N. J. L., 579; 2 McClain Cr. Law, Sec. 1043. 143 Crerve vs. People, 92 Ill., 231. 44 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 1260;

State vs. Armstrong, 100 Mo., 414; Moore vs. People, 69

Ill. App., 399 145 State vs. Roberts, 2 Marv.

(Del.), 450. 146 People vs. Jackson, 96 Mich., 269.

So a newspaper publication falsely charging a public officer with the crime of extortion by collecting more money from a person than he is entitled to collect, and appropriating the difference, commits the offense of libel.147

So also a newspaper publication charging the superintendent of schools with receiving money as a consideration for his influence to induce the board of education to change school books for the use of the school, is libelous.148

The following newspaper publication is libelous: Against what man is the deputy sheriff now plotting by the employment of a needy man who shall act as a spotter that some one who has incurred the liquor deputy's displeasure may be punished? Who will be the next young man to lay himself liable to the state prison for a term of years by taking a false oath by direction of this guardian of our laws?149